Quotes about Wealth

It is clear from the writings of our founding fathers that they disagreed with such excessive taxation to redistribute wealth. In the Annals of Congress (House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1794), President James Madison is documented as saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

The hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.

Your wealth of experience makes you rich. Spend it on hurt people. They need it so badly.

What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family's nest beyond the reach of danger. HABAKKUK 2:9

Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2

I will make peace flow to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flood. Isaiah 66:12

God wanted to make known to those among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land— a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Buffett gave significant portions of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett made money for 50 years before he donated.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Nothing, not even a horse-breeding establishment, eats cash like a ship, and none gobbles it more greedily than a trireme.